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Lists of books, many of which received at least one starred review (indicating a work of unusual merit) from the following review sources: Booklist , Publisher's Weekly (PW), Kirkus and Library Journal (LJ). Additional titles of interest may be included on the lists. Titles are generally listed alphabetically by author.
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Vampire Stars
Page Modified: August 19, 2008
Books about vampires
Annotations are from Advance, the Ingram Book Magazine, unless noted.
Fiction
- Fledgling
Author: Butler, Octavia E.
Publisher: Seven Stories $ 24.95 ISBN: 1583226907 Date: 2005
Kirkus Booklist
Butler's first new novel in seven years is the story of an apparently young, amnesiac girl whose alarmingly un-human needs and abilities lead her to a startling conclusion: she is in fact a genetically modified, 53-year-old vampire.
Updated 10.24.05 - Fat White
Vampire Blues
Author: Fox, Andrew
Publisher: Ballantine $ 13.95 (paper) ISBN: 0345463331 Date: 2003
Booklist
If Dracula slept with A Confederacy of Dunces, this funny first novel about Jules, a feckless, overweight vampire would be the result. He's watched his neighborhood go to hell--and now, a new vampire is looking to drive him out. Jules must find a way to contend with life's hurdles--without getting a stake through the heart.
Updated 4.28.03 - Cerulean Sins
Author: Hamilton, Laurell K.
Publisher: Berkley $ 22.95 ISBN: 0425188361 Date: 2003
PW
Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter, learns what it's like to be at the new end of a centuries-old bloodline--and just how far she'll let herself get pushed around by one of the oldest vampires alive . . . or should one say "dead"?
Updated 3.27.03 - Already Dead: A Joe Pitt Casebook
Author: Huston, Charlie
Publisher: Del Rey $ 12.95 ISBN: 034547824x Date: 2005
PW
The daughter of a prominent New York family is missing, and her Vampyre fascination makes Joe Pitt--private detective and Vampyre--the man for this most dangerous job.
Updated 10.11.05 - Salem's Lot
Author: King, Stephen
Publisher: Doubleday $ 35 ISBN: 0385516487 Date: 2005
LJ
With the addition of fifty pages of material deleted from the 1975 manuscript, an introduction by King, and two short stories related to the novel, this edition represents the text as the author envisioned it. Includes lavishly creepy photographs by Jerry Uelsmann.
Updated 10.3.05 - Daylight
Author: Knox, Elizabeth
Publisher: Ballantine $ 23.95 ISBN: 0345457951
PW
Booklist
Beautifully written, Daylight combines Knox's greatest gifts, her wildly imaginative storytelling and her clear eye for atmosphere and place. The vampires of this book are distinctly Knoxian, as intriguing and intelligently drawn as the angel in The Vintner's Luck.
Updated 3.31.03 - Sunshine
Author: McKinley, Robin
Publisher: Berkeley $ 23.95 ISBN: 0425191788
PW
Unfortunately, she wasn't alone. She never heard them coming. Of course she wouldn't, when they're vampires. A new direction for an already successful fantasy author.
Updated 10.2.03 - Blood and Gold
Author: Rice, Anne
Publisher: Knopf $ 26.95 ISBN: 0679454497 Date: 2001
Kirkus
Out of the pages of the Vampire Chronicles steps the golden-haired Marius, true Child of the Millennia, once mentor to the Vampire Lestat, always and forever the conscientious slayer of the evildoer, and now ready to reveal the secrets of his 2,000-year-long existence in his own intense yet intimate voice. - Blackwood Farm: The Vampire Chronicles
Author: Rice, Anne
Publisher: Knopf $ 26.95 ISBN: 0375411992 Date: 2002
Kirkus
In her new novel, Rice fuses her two uniquely seductive strains of narrative--her vampire legend and the lore of the Mayfair witches--to give readers a world of classic deep South luxury and ancestral secrets.
Updated 7.17.02 - Vamped
Author: Sosnowski, David
Publisher: Free $ 24 ISBN: 0743262530 Date: 2004
LJ
A hot beach read, Sosnowski's Vamped is the story of a very different world--one where vampires rule and humans are the near-extinct minority.
Updated 6.1.04 - Midnight Mass
Author: Wilson, F. Paul
Publisher: Tor $ 25.95 ISBN: 0765307057 Date: 2004
Booklist
A new vampire thriller is penned by the bestselling author of The Tomb and the creator of Repairman Jack.
Suggested Reading: Adult Books for Teens
Updated 4.21.04
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